Born in Moscow in 1945. Art historian, art critic. Specialist in avant-guard art, Western naive and primitive art. Graduated from Historical faculty, Art History department, Moscow State University. Since 1970 worked in the Department of West-European and American Art at Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Since mid-1970-ies occupied in studies of theory and history of the naive art. Author of more than 80 publications on history of Russian and Western art of XIX - XX centuries. Curator of more than 20 art exhibitions. Has died in Moscow in 2001.





Main publications on the problems of naive and primitive art

1. Russo i Pikasso. Stolknovenie naivnoy zhivopisi Russo s professional'nym avangardizmom ego epokhi // Sovetskoe iskusstvoznanie-74. M., 1974
2. Anri Russo i francuzskie naivy // Primitiv i ego mesto v hudozhestvennoy kul'ture Novogo i Noveishego vremeni. M., 1983
3. Ruso Mitnichara // Izkustvo. 1984. N 6 (in Bulgarian)
4. Kartina Anri Russo "Poet i Muza" // Etyudy o shedevrah GMII. M., 1986
5. "Sbor plodov" Polya Gogena // Etyudy o shedevrah GMII. M., 1986
6. Pol' Gogen: Vzglyad iz Rossii. M., 1989
7. Tvorchestvo Anri Russo i traditsii francuzskogo lubka // Soobshcheniya GMII. M., 1990
8. Dar Anatoliya Germana // Nashe nasledie. 1990.
9. Razmyshleniya o tvorchestve Vladislava Hasiora // Iskusstvo i iskusstvoznanie na puti preodoleniya mifov i stereotipov. M., 1990
10. Istoki tvorchestva Russo i Pirosmani. Votivnaya kartina // Niko Pirosmanashvili. M., 1992
11. Ex voto (votivnaya kartinka) // Dekorativnoe iskusstvo. 1993. N 1-2
12. Ob otnoshenii k primitivu i naivnosti v vostochnoevropeyskom iskusstve mezhvoennogo perioda // Hudozhestvennye processy i napravleniya v iskusstve stran Vostochnoy Evropy 1920-h - 1930-h godov. M., 1995
13. Fenomen naiva kak odin iz vedushchih faktorov v iskusstve XX veka // Primitiv v izobrazitel'nom iskusstve: Materialy nauchnoy konferencii. 1995 / Gos. Tretyakovskaya galereya. M., 1997
14. Otkrytie primitiva v iskusstve nachala XX veka. Ot Ude k Val'denu // Voprosy iskusstvoznaniya. 1/97 (X). M., 1997
15. U istokov laboratorii avangarda: ot lubka k velikim "naivam" // Mir narodnoy kartinki. Vipperovskie chteniya (1997). Vyp. 30. M., 1999